this is why we need guns!

This could have easily been the case in the tragic school shooting in ct. Sorry cant post link so I just copied the story...

While reports of Tuesday's shooting at the Clackamas Town Center Mall in Oregon, dominated the national media, until Friday's horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, one very important detail has been repeatedly (and intentionally) left out of the MSM's coverage.

The shooter, Jacob Tyler Roberts, was confronted with an armed citizen, at which time he ran away and shot himself. By the time police arrived on the scene, Roberts was already dead.

That armed man was 22-year-old Nick Meli, who was at the mall shopping with a young woman who was babysitting her friend's baby.

On Friday, KGW News Channel 8, the only media outlet to cover this part of the story, posted the following report on their website:

"I heard three shots and turned and looked at Casey and said, 'are you serious?,'" he said.

The friend and baby hit the floor. Meli, who has a concealed carry permit, positioned himself behind a pillar.

"He was working on his rifle," said Meli. "He kept pulling the charging handle and hitting the side."

The break in gunfire allowed Meli to pull out his own gun, but he never took his eyes off the shooter.

"As I was going down to pull, I saw someone in the back of the Charlotte move, and I knew if I fired and missed, I could hit them," he said.

Meli took cover inside a nearby store. He never pulled the trigger. He stands by that decision.

"I'm not beating myself up cause I didn't shoot him," said Meli. "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself."

The gunman was dead, but not before taking two innocent lives with him and taking the innocence of everyone else.

We now know that the assailant's gun had jammed, and when he cleared it, he quickly retreated and shot himself, as Meli continued to keep him in his sights.

Not only has the national media refused to acknowledge this aspect of the deadly event, but law enforcement has as well.

On Tuesday night, Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts held a press conference in which he credited local police officers and deputies with ending the rampage, never mentioning Meli's actions.

Sheriff Roberts said: "I'm really proud of all the different agencies that came together to really step up and put their lives on the line," to "basically hunt down this guy in the mall."

Now, remember, the shooter was already dead when police arrived on the scene.

Killed in the attack were Steven Mathew Forsyth, 45, and Cindy Ann Yuille, 54, A 15-year-old girl, identified as Kristina Shevchenko, was seriously wounded but was expected to survive.

Of course, the Obamamedia is in full support of even harsher gun control laws and it should come as no surprise that they would suppress any story which provides proof that lawfully armed citizens do prevent crimes and save lives.

Here are a few facts about armed Americans:

-In 1982, the town of Kennesaw, Georgia, passed an ordinance which required all heads of household to have at least one gun in the house. The burglary rate immediately dropped an astounding 89 percent. Ten years after the law was passed, the burglary rate was still 72 percent less than it was in 1981.

-Armed citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as the police do every year in this country (1,527 to 606).

-A 1996 University of Chicago study concluded that states which passed concealed carry laws reduced their murder rates by 8.5 percent, rapes by 5 percent, aggravated assaults by 7 percent, and robbery by 3 percent.

-According to the National Safety Council, with guns being used 2.5 million times a year in self defense against criminals, firearms are actually used more than 80 times more often to protect lives, rather than to take lives.

-A 1979 Justice Department study entitled Rape Victimization in American Cities, concluded that of more than 32,000 attempted rapes, 32 percent were actually committed. But when a woman was armed with a gun or knife, only 3 percent of the attempted rapes were actually committed.

-Another Justice Department study found that 57 percent of felons agreed that "criminals are more worried about meeting an armed victim than they are about running the police."

Comments (195)

This is the most IDIOTIC post i have EVER read. Because people have easy access to guns, 30 some odd people are going to bed tonight without their BABIES. Who they will NEVER get to hold again. Fuck the right to bear arms, and anyone who supports it. Vomit, vomit, vomit.

The murderers mother should have locked the guns up. That killing has nothing to do with how accessible the guns were to him. He would have gotten one somewhere. He was obviously pretty damn determined. Your statement is however extremely idiotic.

Just think this through... If that nick meli had also started shooting, now youve got two guys shooting in a mall and no one knows whats going on. Do they know each other? Are they together? You could get a third person playing hero and start shooting the two guys with guns and now it looks like three bad guys with guns shooting at each other. It makes no sense.

Right. It's his mother's fault for not locking them up. Way to blame the victim. Guns are stupid. Period. End of story. How many more dead, innocent children do you need to prove it? If your LO was lying all laid out in the funeral home tonight because some psychotic asshat had easy access to a deadly weapon, you'd change your mind.

How many more people in the mall would have been shot had nick meli not had his gun? He did not shoot because he knew it wasn't safe, that was common sense of a responsable gun owner! Obviously him just having his gun was enough leverage to stop the gunman..

I am not staying it was her fault. It was no ones fault but his, but there are things that could have helped. "Gun control" however, is not one of those things. Crazy people WILL KILL. It's awful but it is true. I will not spend anymore time on the subject. This is a tragedy and that son of a bitch will get no more time on my mind. He doesn't deserve to be remembered. The babies and heroic workers in that school need to be the focus here.

People kill with more than just guns...they will find a way. There is ignorance in both arguments. I support the right to bear arms and could care less how you feel about it. I have a gun to protect my family, not yours. I'm sure a lot of home invasion, rape, and other victims of violence changed their stance on firearms.

I will say this. I respect other peoples opinions. You have every right to it just like I do. That is the great thing about this country. Now, I have lived and worked in Kennesaw Georgia. They do have a low crime rate. I have also lived with guns. When I was a teen ager I had four area nut jobs try to break into my house, because they wanted to "beat up" my cousin. One of them had a knife and a hammer. I had a 12 guage. They decided to leave when I shoved it out the window and up the leaders nose. My first husband was extremely abusive, and has even held me at knife point. My best friends sister was murdered by an ex-boyfriend, in which he stabbed her over 30 times. Why do we not outlaw knives as well. The young man that shot the school children did not own a gun. They were purchased by his mother for her use. The boys of Columbine had purchased thier guns illegally. So people can get guns regardless. Or they can get knives and stab people. My point is thier are people out there that will hurt others with any object they could find.